Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-11-03

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| again stand by the old party. even though
| the candidates do not suit you, they are
the choice of the party. Yes, they are
the choice of packed convention, of a
convention manipulated by wire pullers,
working for self interest. Now there are
men on the Republican ticket whom to
elect Will be to elect good men, men who
have been tried; 80 there are on the other
| tickets. But voters, look them all over
! carefully, and see what each has done
for that party they are calling on you so
loudly to support. You will be surprised
at the result of the investigation. You
will find some who have maintained a
marked neutrality, never having raised
their voices on either side until nomina-
ted. What do you owe them? Simply
nothing, and if they are not your choice
you sacrifice your manhood, your liberty
and your principle by voting for them.
In national affairs it is all right to stand
by the party, if you know neither candi-
date, but in home affrirs where every
candidate is known to you, it is the
height of fOolishness to vote for man
merely because he is on certain ticket
If he is not your choice do mot vote for
him, even though you were in the con-
vention that nominated him, have the
manhood to stand up and assert your
rights to vote as you please regardless OF
party. What can you expect from either
of the old parties? Have they not both
made promises which have been forgot
ten as soon as the election was over?
Will our new party, the Labor party. for
get the promises and the people as soon
as elected? Maybee they will, but try
them; maybee they will not. If they do
not do better than the old parties have
DONE they can do no worse. If they do
as the old parties have done then discard
them, do not support them; but give
them chance. This plaintive wall OF
stand by the old party" is boyish, it is
not the out-breathing of free American
people, but savors largely of the old clans
nish times, when to belong to one tribe or
clan was to be an enemy to all others.
We are free people. and should exer-
else our freedom and not be bound down
by obligations to any clique.
One says stand by the party, for you
may want the party to stand by you.
Ha! ha We can point to a man in this
city who has stood by the Grand Old
Party necessarily, lauding to the skies his
worst enemies, praising them that to use
their own words, Il downed him and am
on top" He stands by the candidates
because the convention has named them.
Yet the same men, when he asks for o
favor, conspire to beat instead of help
this worthy man. Such is the gratitude
of those whe are the party leaders. No,
sir! Stand by nothing that you know to
be wrong. Stand by all whom you know
to be right. There are staunch Repub-
licans in our city in whose behalf we
would labor constantly. should they ask
| for public favors, because we are as we
think every man should be. free and in
dependent.
And now, voters of Ford county, we
as Labor ticket cannot hope for great
victories, but we do hope and ask that if
after careful investigation you find on
our ticket men of equal ability with those
on the other tickets, that you give them
your support. The change can make
matters no worse, and may be lasting
benefit. But above all vote as your
judgment dictates, and not as the party
politicians plead.